Do you still have the video link???

He’s sleeping with the fishes now

you already have that firewall. it’s your experiences and human connections, your understanding of media, your personal history and learning and the feelings you experience.

you don’t need a firewall to keep you from being manipulated, you need to learn to fucking read and think and feel. to learn and question, to develop trusted friends and family you can talk to.

if it feels like your emotional backdoors are being exploited then maybe youre thinking or behaving like a monster and your mind is revolting against itself.

America. Especially for people and organizations that rely on warranties or support agreements it just doesn’t happen.

I am too. I used to think that people upgraded computers because I and the people around me did, but seeing what a local ewaste scrapper deals with I ended up changing my mind. All those computers are in their bone-stock configuration.

Once he got a pallet of gaming pcs, prebuilt originally, but I thought at least these will have upgraded ram and cpus and for sure gpus and ssds. Nope. They were as they shipped. Two of four slots empty, still booted perfectly up on spinning media.

When companies say they’re not seeing demand for upgradability I believe them.

That’s great.

I’m telling you as someone who worked for a long time doing business and individual support that people don’t upgrade their computers. Even when it was the “best” choice, you tell someone $30 worth of memory and a $50 ssd will make their computer better than new and they’ll choose to buy a new one almost every time. Businesses have a refresh cycle and don’t upgrade outside of that.

The overwhelming majority of computers, and I’m talking phones, laptops, towers, mini pcs, all of it. The vast overwhelming majority of computers will never be upgraded or have any hardware replaced at all even as a repair.

Including phones in this ought to tilt it towards getting things fixed too because of all the broken screens but most people just get a new phone when they break the screen or lose battery life.

E: if you want to look for yourself, and I understand why you might, find someone near you doing electronic salvage and peek at the machines they’re stripping out. Not a one will ever have anything other than what it shipped with.

From an engineering standpoint they made a set of design choices with the m series chips that sacrifice easy upgradability for the benefits of ram soldered in very close to the chips that are gonna use it that smartphones, tablets and most laptops have. Before someone jumps in and says it’s possible to have replaceable ram in that same space, yes, that’s true but you’d have to pull the heatsink off every time you wanna swap it out, and for what? Almost all users never upgrade their ram and choose instead to get anew computer (this has been true forever, btw).

From a sustainability perspective, if no one is upgrading anyway and getting the ram socket off the board saves a few grams of plastic, that’s a net win. Plastic recycling is fake and made up, metal and electronic recycling are real for better or worse. Is it better to keep the 5% of devices that will ever be repaired or upgraded running or reduce the amount of plastic in the waste stream on the other 95%? Idk. But I know that apple has a recycling program for devices.

Who should sterilize themselves, and how is that not eugenics?

Lot of arguing about how much memory is too much, whether it should be upgradable and how much it should cost in here.

No ones said a damn thing about how the average computer buyer is making the same amount or less than they were ten years ago when adjusted for inflation.

No. Israelis know what their government is doing. you can’t excuse people from being willing citizens of the genocidal colonial state.

Hey you can fuck off.

This person has an older account than you and seems less like a shill from their post history than you. Calling someone’s identity into question because they oppose your political views is also a trash move.

Stop trying to bad jacket people and be normal.

That 750 is a fifth of a gallon. That’s why it gets called a fifth.

from the article:

their self-styled “anti-authoritarian” platoon numbers several dozen

the lowest size estimate i’ve seen for azov alone is 700.

regardless, i’m interested to know how they’re doing now and how the ideas around anarchism in ukrane are developing. its been two years of war since that article was published and a lot has changed.

Do you think people running you out of threads and instances are the ones to blame when you’re there to fight the propaganda? Do you think you’re not trying to hide from it when you abandon an account because everyone recognizes you?

I’m not asking to start a fight or hurt your feelings, but that’s weird posting.

It’s the libs.

Communists will be like “no, and here’s 69 books, articles and correspondences that outline why”. And then when you say “well I read three of those already and I didn’t take that away from it” they’re like “oh sick, let’s talk about that”. Libs will just say “no and you’re a bad person, also banned for username”

I’m not aware of any communist militias fighting for ukrane. That would be the ideological opposite of fascism. They outlawed those parties anyway, so it’s unlikely any commies would be like “yeah, let me defend this homeland that hates me and made my organization illegal!”

It’s amazing to me that zyn rehabilitated dipping to people who would cross to the other side of the road if they saw someone wearing real tree pants.

Is it still shit and exploding heads?

lol how’s that working out for you, considering you just said people recognize you and run you out of threads and instances?

uhh, you’re on ee. it’s not going to be defederating from ml anytime soon.

why not get on one of the lib instances like world or beehaw?